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At last, here's the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2's cameo in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. This time there's absolutely no doubt about it: It's been confirmed by ILM.
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ILM Special effects supervisor Scott Farrar said that R2-D2 had a cameo in Transformers 2. My bet was that he was behind Megan Fox's ass at one point, giving her a back rub. With his special back vibrating thingapparatus. Updated.More »
Pro tip: there's nothing that gets ladies worked up like seeing a man in an outfit that combines sci-fi references with the laziest article of clothing possible. For only $92, how can you say no? [Etsy via Technabob]
For the love of the holy underpants of Yoda! This R2-D2 is the most amazing astromech mod yet. Created by Popular Science reader Brian De Vitis, it holds eight consoles, a sound system, and a projector! Check its interior.
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Apparently Industrial Light and Magic is now inserting R2-D2 in every single movie they make. Before it was Star Trek, and according to film's visual-effects supervisor Scott Farrar, now it is Transformers 2:
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The mystery is over. After all, R2-D2 wasn't the astromech calculating the warp trajectories for the Enterprise. Here you have the exact timing of his stellar cameo—and the frame capture to prove itUpdatedMore »
For now, it's only the head in a custom-made R2-D2, but soon the whole astromech will obey the orders of an iPhone, including the possibility of firing sounds and send text to its head displays.
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Now you can add "fish tank" along side "beverage cooler" and "projector" on the long list of job titles R2-D2 has had in his post-acting career. But rest assured that no matter what his occupation happens to be, R2 has a strong work ethic. In addition to housing your fish, he will rotate his head and utter his trademark bleeps with any voice command. He also features overhead LED tank lights that rotate colors and a periscope built-into his radar eye for spying on the fish floating in his robo-belly. On the downside, R2 never works cheap—this beauty will set you back $130. [Hammacher Schlemmer via TFTS via Geekalerts]
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